Color & design blog
How do you apply a forecast?
Discuss how you use CMG’s World Color Forecast™, grow your network, and learn tips from CMF Designers and Color Design Professionals in our ColorChat™ on July 20, 2023
CMG's 2025+ World Color Forecast™
The CMG Summit REVEAL is a four-day virtual experience showcasing CMG’S color forecast regional directions. Learn the top 3 Color Trend Stories with supporting color directions.
60 Years of Color Forecasting
Last November, Color Marketing Group® (CMG) members and guests gathered at CMG’s International Summit in Tuscan, Arizona, to celebrate CMG’s 60th anniversary.
Magenta: The colour that doesn't exist
When we look at a rainbow, we see a full spectrum of light. Every colour we could imagine. Except one – magenta.
Why the design thinking process is so important: a primer
Color of Biodiversity
COLOR IMPACTS BEYOND AESTHETICS
Anni Albers: Work with Materials
COLOR NOW — A Yellow-Influenced Green
CALM UNITY
COLOR MARKETING GROUP’S MAY COLOR ALERT® – CALM UNITY
PUNK PURPLE
COLOR MARKETING GROUP’S JUNE COLOR ALERT® - PUNK PURPLE
DESPERTAR
Color Marketing Group’s July 2022 Color Alert - Despertar
COLOR CHOICES CAN'T OCCUR IN A VACUUM
Color design thinking drives top-selling product colors which empowers color's ability to silently communicate. Learn more about Color Marketing Group's forecasts and their importance to design.
THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNICATING IN COLOR
Did you have a color in mind that would be perfect for your next product design, paint color, plastic surface, or printed marketing piece? Have you ever wondered how you would accurately communicate that color to your printer, materials developer, or pigment manufacturer?
Color Design with TechmerVision, form follows color
See how TechmerVision addresses color design early in the product development process and opens up unique color opportunities for the right color in enhanced materials development. Coming to Detroit Colour Council October 20, 2021.
Expert Tips for Painting a Room to Avoid
Avoid 15 common painting room mistakes with expert tips. Learn from top experts for a successful DIY paint project.
Color Design Tool for Materials Development
Sandra Sampson, CMF Design Lead, presents “TechmerVision, Color Design Tool for Materials Development” at ISCC ‘s Color Impact 2021. TechmerVision is a unique web-based color design tool, developed by Techmer PM, that enables designers and engineers within all parts of the supply chain to communicate, collaborate, and innovate in creating and applying new colors.
COVID-19 influences 2021 color palettes
Color palettes in 2021 will center on hues that make us feel safe and grounded but also inspired, particularly as we continue to live and work at home simultaneously.
Inaugural CMG Chattanooga ChromaZone A Great Success
Industry Pros and ARt Center Millennials Forecast Color for 2020
Color Marketing Group held a ChromaZone®, color forecasting workshop at Art Center college of design and lead by Sandy Sampson of Simple Modern Style and VP of PR & Communications for CMG.